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American University Washington College of Law professor and leading U.S. criminal law scholar Angela J. Davis provided expert legal insight into America’s ongoing racial injustices during a virtual roundtable discussion with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) Friday, June 5.

Congratulations to Natalie M. Koss ’03, elected to the D.C. Bar Board of Governors. Koss, a member of the D.C. Bar for over 15 years, is managing partner of Potomac Legal Group PLLC.

AUWCL’s Immigrant Justice Clinic was a key reason Shazreh Khan ’20 and rising 3L Audrey Vorhees decided to Washington College of Law, and that passion to help others has extended through the global pandemic.

The times in which we find ourselves call for self-reflection and what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as self-purification. For many people, watching the public killing of George Floyd was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Trouble is, that back has been broken again and again, and yet we are still hopeful for a better day.

The 21st Annual Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (May 26 – June 12), held by American University Washington College of Law’s Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, has completed its first week of courses. Students and expert faculty from 26 countries around the world have continued to connect daily, joining virtual sessions on specific human rights topics.